Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Help
Table of contents
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Startup and Settings
- What's new in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
- What's new in Microsoft Office 2003
- About product activation in Microsoft Office System products
- Disclaimer: Use of Fictitious Names
- Terms of Use
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Getting Help
- About getting help while you work
- Icons in the Search Results task pane
- Show or hide the Type a question for help box
- Change the appearance of a Help topic
- Print a Help topic
- Troubleshoot Help
- The Office Assistant
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Other Resources
- About the Office Resource Kit
- Open the Office Readme file
- Get Help for Visual Basic for Applications
- About connections
- Get help from Microsoft Product Support services
- Tips for better search results
- Show the Tip of the Day when an Office program starts
- Automatically update this list from the Web
- Microsoft Office Online
- Accessibility
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Installing and Customizing
- What's installed with PowerPoint 2003
- Install or remove individual components in Office
- Navigation and display of task panes
- Get information about your program and computer
- Change Office's appearance
- Open an Office Binder file
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Toolbars and Commands
- About menus and toolbars
- Create a custom toolbar
- Add a button, menu, or command
- Assign a hyperlink to a toolbar button or menu command
- Delete a button or menu command
- Move or copy a button, menu, or menu command
- Assign or change a keyboard accelerator
- Group related buttons and menus on a toolbar
- Move a submenu anywhere on the screen
- Remove commands and controls for languages you don't use
- Customize a shortcut menu
- Rename a button, menu command, or menu
- Delete a toolbar or menu
- Show or hide a toolbar
- Move a toolbar
- Show all buttons or commands
- Resize a toolbar
- Add, change, or delete sounds used with buttons and menu commands
- Change a picture on a button
- Change the size of a toolbar button or drop-down list box
- Display an icon, text or both on a menu command or button
- Rename a custom toolbar
- Restore original settings for buttons, commands, or toolbars
- Show or hide toolbar ScreenTips
- Troubleshoot toolbars and menus
- Troubleshooting Installing Office
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Using Microsoft Office
- About the default working folder
- About Microsoft Office Document Imaging
- Repeat my last action
- Undo or redo an action
- Automatically start an Office program when you turn on your computer
- Change the program that starts when you open a file
- Copy the window or screen contents
- Show or hide multiple program buttons on the Windows Taskbar
- What happened to the Office Shortcut Bar?
- Change the screen resolution
- View all hidden file types and file name extensions
- Minimize a window
- Minimize all program windows on the Windows desktop
- Restore a minimized window
- Show all windows on the Windows desktop
- Format a disk
- Prompt to open a file as read-only
- Office Clipboard
- Managing Files
- Finding Files
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Handwriting and Speech
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Tablet PC Ink
- About ink features in Office
- About using ink in PowerPoint
- About using ink in PowerPoint views
- Use ink during presentations
- Use ink to edit slides
- Select ink
- Copy and paste ink
- Print ink annotations
- Change the color of ink
- Delete ink
- Change color of ink
- Change the default to print ink annotations
- Switch pens
- Change thickness of ink
- Resize ink
- Troubleshoot ink in PowerPoint
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Handwriting Recognition
- About handwriting recognition
- Install handwriting recognition
- Use handwriting recognition
- Handwriting recognition toolbars
- Change handwriting recognition options
- Correct handwriting
- Troubleshoot handwriting recognition
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East Asian Languages
- About handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
- Use handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
- Change handwriting recognition options in East Asian languages
- Change the handwriting recognition language
- Handwriting recognition toolbars in East Asian languages
- Troubleshoot handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
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Speech Recognition
- About speech recognition
- Getting started with speech recognition
- Install and train speech recognition
- Things you can do and say with speech recognition
- Use speech recognition
- How to speak to a computer
- Position the speech recognition microphone
- Format text using speech recognition
- Turn on or off the speech recognition microphone
- Create and use speech recognition user profiles
- Switch between using Dictation and Voice Command modes
- Add to or delete from the speech recognition dictionary
- Change speech recognition engines
- Correct speech recognition errors
- Language bar speech recognition messages
- Troubleshoot speech recognition
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Tablet PC Ink
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Creating Presentations
- About creating presentations
- Create a presentation using blank slides
- Create a new presentation from an existing one
- Select multiple files
- Create a presentation using suggested content
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Working with Text
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Adding, Finding, and Replacing Text
- About adding text to a slide
- About inserting text into your presentation
- Add text to a slide
- Insert text from another file
- Insert a symbol or special character
- Turn text AutoFit on or off
- Expand or collapse text
- Temporarily turn off text AutoFit
- Find text
- Replace text
- Type ¢, £, ¥, & ®, and other characters not on the keyboard
- Troubleshoot adding text
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Editing, Formatting, and Moving Text
- About automatic text formatting
- Select text
- Automatically select whole words
- Use drag-and-drop editing
- Show or hide text formatting
- Turn AutoFormat options on or off
- Change capitalization
- Change text color
- Change text size
- Make text bold, italic, or underlined
- Format fractions as fraction characters
- Format hyphens as dashes
- Format ordinal numbers as superscript
- Format smiley faces and arrows as symbols
- Format straight quotes as curly quotes
- Format text as superscript or subscript
- Troubleshoot automatic text corrections
- Troubleshoot moving, editing, and formatting text
- Copying and Pasting
- Fonts
- Formatting Paragraphs
- AutoCorrect
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Checking Spelling and Styles
- About spelling dictionaries
- About checking style in a presentation
- Look up words in the dictionary
- Turn automatic spelling checks on or off
- Check spelling
- Check the spelling of text in another language
- Change options for style checks
- Add words to the custom dictionary
- Make a style change throughout a presentation
- Show or hide spelling errors
- Skip text during a spelling check
- Turn style checks on or off
- Troubleshoot spelling checks
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Adding, Finding, and Replacing Text
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Working with Slides
- Insert a new slide
- Change slide order
- Split body text onto two slides
- Duplicate slides within a presentation
- Delete a slide
- Hide a slide
- Show a hidden slide
- Create a slide containing titles of other slides
- Create a table of contents slide that links to custom shows
- Zoom in or out on a slide
- Use portrait and landscape orientation in the same presentation
- Send slides to Microsoft Word
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Opening, Saving, and Converting
- About working with different versions of PowerPoint
- About converting other presentations to PowerPoint format
- About file conversion in PowerPoint
- Save a presentation in an earlier PowerPoint format
- Save an earlier PowerPoint version to PowerPoint 2003
- Features affected by working with a PowerPoint presentation in an earlier version
- Save a presentation in Rich Text Format
- File formats for saving presentations
- Show, hide, or change the list of recently used presentations
- Set up a program to open during a presentation
- Set up an OLE object to open during a presentation
- Troubleshoot opening or saving a presentation
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Formatting Slides and Presentations
- Working with Layouts
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Using Templates
- About design templates
- Apply a design template
- Create a presentation using a design template
- Add a template to the AutoContent Wizard
- Change the default design for new presentations
- Save a presentation as a template
- Renaming the blank.pot template
- Restoring the blank.pot template after you change the install language
- Troubleshoot templates
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Color Schemes and Backgrounds
- About color schemes
- About changing the background
- Apply a different color scheme to slides
- Use the color scheme of another slide or presentation
- Modify a color scheme
- Delete a color scheme
- Prevent chart colors from changing when you change the color scheme
- Change the slide background
- Change how the outline and notes panes look in a Web presentation
- Hide the background graphics
- Save a slide, background, or object as a picture
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Using the Slide Master and the Title Master
- About the slide master
- About the title master
- Insert a slide master or title master
- Replace or add slide masters
- Rename a slide master
- Applying a design template with multiple masters
- Duplicate a slide master
- Delete a slide master or title master
- Prevent a slide master from being deleted
- Allow or prevent multiple masters in a presentation
- Reaching the limit of masters in a presentation
- Troubleshoot slide masters
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Bullets and Numbering
- Add bullets or numbering to text
- Remove bullets or numbering from text
- Turn off automatic bulleted and numbered lists
- Change the default bullet or numbering style
- Change the bullet style in a list
- Change the numbering style in a list
- Change the starting number in a numbered list
- Adjust the indent in a bulleted or numbered list
- Use a picture file as a bullet
- Troubleshoot bulleted and numbered lists
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Tables
- About tables
- Create a table
- Create an embedded Word table
- Add rows or columns to a table
- Select items in a table
- Add, change, or remove a fill from a table cell
- Office programs you can use to create a table
- Change a table border
- Change the column width or row height in a table
- Change the direction of text or a table
- Merge or split cells in a table
- Delete a table and its contents
- Delete table rows or columns
- Delete the contents in a table cell
- Position or align text in a table
- Rotate text in tables
- Troubleshoot tables
- Headers and Footers
- Adjusting Placeholders
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Hyperlinks and Action Buttons
- About hyperlinks and action buttons
- Create a hyperlink
- Create a hyperlink to a custom show or location in the current presentation
- Change a hyperlink
- Insert an action button
- Set a hyperlink base
- Remove a hyperlink
- Emphasize a hyperlink with highlighting or a sound
- Format Internet and network paths as hyperlinks
- Troubleshoot hyperlinks
- Smart Tags
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Adding Multimedia
- Music and Sound
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Movies and Animated GIFs
- About movies and animated GIFs
- Add a movie or animated GIF to a slide
- Preview a movie or animated GIF in a presentation
- Rewind a movie after it plays
- Delete a movie or animated GIF from a slide
- Resize a movie
- Loop a sound or movie
- Start a movie or sound automatically or on mouse-click
- Troubleshoot movies
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Voice Narration
- About recording a voice narration for a presentation
- Record a voice narration
- Record a sound or voice comment on a single slide
- Preview narration, music, or sound in a presentation
- Re-record a voice narration
- Delete narration, music, or sound from a slide
- Turn narration on or off in a presentation
- Troubleshoot narration, music, and sounds
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Views
- About PowerPoint views
- About working in an outline format
- Select a default view
- Change the size of slide thumbnails
- Show or hide the Outline and Slides tabs
- Hide the notes pane or outline pane for a Web presentation
- Move the Outline and Slides tabs
- Move text in an outline
- Decrease or increase text indents in an outline
- Send notes, handouts, or an outline to Word
- Troubleshoot working on the Outline tab
- Troubleshoot PowerPoint views
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Animation
- About animating text and objects
- Animate text and objects
- Animate a diagram or organization chart
- Animate text by letter, word, or paragraph
- Change a text or object animation
- Create a smooth start or finish for animated text and objects
- Apply or draw a motion path
- Change a motion path
- Change the sequence of animations
- Add an enhancement to an animated object
- Dim text after an animation
- Change the color of text after an animation
- Remove an animated effect
- Animate menus
- Loop an animation
- Automatically rewind an animation after it plays
- Custom Animation task pane
- Preview animations
- Troubleshoot animations
- Timings and Transitions
- Creating Custom Shows
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Creating Note Pages and Handouts
- About handouts
- About notes
- Create notes while working on a presentation
- Make changes to notes pages
- Change the layout for notes and handouts
- Reapply the layout to a notes page
- Change the notes background
- Change the handout background
- Apply a color scheme to notes or handouts
- Change the handout master
- Troubleshoot notes and handouts
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Photo Albums
- About photo albums
- Create a photo album
- Set layout and design options in a photo album
- Add a picture or text box to a photo album
- Move pictures and text boxes in a photo album
- Delete a picture or text box from a photo album
- Add captions to a photo album
- Rotate a picture in a photo album
- Adjust the contrast or brightness of a picture in a photo album
- Troubleshoot photo albums
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Running Presentations
- About delivering presentations
- About running a presentation on two monitors
- Start a slide show presentation
- Run a presentation on two monitors
- Navigate between slides during a presentation
- Always show the pointer during a slide show
- Hide the pointer during a slide show
- Temporarily black out the screen during a presentation
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Setting Up a Presentation
- About video ports on laptop computers
- Set up a presentation to run on a second monitor
- Turn on dual monitor support
- Set up a presentation to run in a continuous loop
- Set up a laptop computer to run a slide show on a projector
- Improve slide show performance
- Troubleshoot running a presentation on more than one monitor
- Troubleshoot running a slide show on a laptop and a projector
- Packaging a Presentation to Run on Another Computer
- PowerPoint Viewer
- Broadcasting a Presentation
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Working with Graphics and Charts
- Graphics file types and filters
- Troubleshoot scanners and digital cameras
- Clip Art
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Shapes, Pictures, and Drawing Objects
- Select objects
- Troubleshoot pictures
- Troubleshoot drawing objects
- Adding Lines, Curves, Freeforms, and Connectors
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Adding and Editing Shapes and Pictures
- About shapes
- About pictures
- Add a shape
- Change the text in WordArt
- Change a shape to another shape
- Add WordArt
- Determine if a picture is a bitmap or a drawn picture
- Reshape a shape
- Add a picture
- Add a picture throughout a presentation
- Change the shape of a freeform or curve
- Create transparent areas in a picture
- Undo all changes to a picture
- Change the contrast or brightness of a picture
- About transparent areas
- Keys for working with shapes, text boxes, and WordArt
- Add a picture or object to notes
- Display pictures in black and white in a photo album
- Save the original version of an edited picture
- Resize a shape or text box to fit its text
- Save a picture, shape, or WordArt
- Set an alternative text description for a picture or shape on a Web page
- Text and Shapes
- Cropping and Sizing Pictures
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Adding Fills, Shadows, and Other Effects
- Add or remove a shadow
- Add or remove an embossed or engraved effect from a shape
- Remove an object border
- Add, change, or remove the 3-D effect from a shape
- Add, change, or remove a fill
- About text shadows and 3-D effects
- Add or remove a text shadow
- Change colors, patterns, lines, fills, and borders in charts
- Add or remove an embossed effect from text
- Change the color of a shadow
- Change the color of a 3-D effect
- Change the position of a shadow
- Troubleshoot adding borders, fills, shadows, and 3-D effects
- Copying Objects
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Aligning and Arranging Objects
- About aligning and arranging objects
- About guides and the grid
- Align objects
- Add or delete a guide
- Align objects with a guide or on a grid
- Move an object
- Arrange objects equal distances from each other
- Measure the precise distance between objects
- Set spacing between grid lines
- Show or hide guides
- Show or hide the grid
- Show or hide the drawing ruler
- Troubleshoot aligning and arranging objects
- Rotating and Flipping Objects
- Grouping and Stacking Objects
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Working with Charts and Worksheets
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Charts
- About working on a chart
- Add a chart
- Draw a flowchart
- Add a title to a chart or axis
- Change a flowchart
- Add data to a chart
- Add an organization chart
- Animate a chart
- Change an organization chart
- Change to a different chart type
- Delete data from a chart
- Delete an organization chart or diagram
- Resize a diagram or organization chart
- Edit data in a chart
- Troubleshoot diagrams and organization charts
- File formats PowerPoint can import as charts
- Microsoft Excel Worksheets
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Charts
- Diagrams and Organization Charts
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Printing
- About printing
- About printing in black and white
- Adjust presentation colors to print in black and white
- Preview a page before printing
- Turn background printing on or off
- Print slides
- Print an outline
- Print handouts
- Print notes pages
- Print reviewer comments
- Printer can't be found
- Print ink annotations
- Troubleshoot printing hidden slides
- Troubleshoot printing
- Printer Options
- Set Up Printer
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Security and Privacy
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Security
- Password
- Digital Signatures
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Macros
- Macro security levels
- Change the security level for macro virus protection
- Warn about installed templates and add-ins
- About helping protect files from macro viruses
- Modify the list of trusted publishers for macros
- Macro language support is disabled
- Troubleshoot modifying the list of trusted publishers for macros
- Privacy
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Security
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PowerPoint and the Web
- About single file Web pages (MHTML)
- Optimize a Web presentation for a specific browser
- Preview a presentation as a Web page
- Resize Web presentation graphics to fit a browser window
- Save a presentation as a single file Web page
- Save a presentation as a Web page
- Set or change the page title bar of a Web page
- Show slide animations during a Web presentation
- Web presentations for different browsers
- Troubleshoot Web presentations
- Research Services
- Translation Services
- Publishing to the Web
- Web Folders and Web Sites
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Web Scripting
- About Java applet support
- About Web scripts
- Copy or move a Java applet
- Create a Web script on a Web page
- Remove a Java applet from a Web page
- View or edit a Web script
- Copy or move a Web script
- Change the default script language
- Remove Web scripts from a Web page
- Show or hide script anchors on a Web page
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Web Toolbar
- Add or remove an FTP site from the list of Internet sites
- View your Web start page
- Change the logon name or password for an FTP site
- Change your Web start page
- Change your Web search page
- Add an open file to the Favorites folder
- Cancel the display of a Web page or hyperlink
- Refresh the display of the active file or Web page
- Show only Web toolbar buttons
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Sharing Information
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With Other People
- Information Rights Management
- Document Workspaces
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Sending for Review
- About sending a presentation for review
- Send a presentation for review
- Post a file to an Exchange folder
- Send a presentation as an attachment
- Review a presentation
- Changes tracked in PowerPoint
- Insert a comment
- Change a comment
- Move a comment
- About shared workspaces
- Show next or previous comment or change
- Review a file by using Reconversion
- Show or hide comments and changes
- Delete a comment or change marker
- Show changes by reviewer
- Remove a reviewer from the review
- Apply reviewer changes
- Unapply all reviewer changes
- Troubleshoot sending presentations for review
- Combining Reviewed Presentation
- Fax Services
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During Online Meetings
- About online meetings
- Start an unscheduled online meeting
- Accept a request for an online meeting
- Schedule an online meeting
- View a list of participants in an online meeting
- Add a participant to an online meeting
- Remove a participant from an online meeting
- Open Chat in an online meeting
- Change a file in an online meeting
- End an online meeting
- Send a file to participants in an online meeting
- Troubleshoot online meetings
- Open the Whiteboard in an online meeting
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Web Discussions
- About Web Discussions
- About system requirements for discussions and subscriptions
- Select a discussion server
- Print discussions
- Read a discussion
- Reply to, edit, or delete a discussion comment
- Close a discussion
- Discuss a Web page or document
- Permissions for discussions and subscriptions
- Filter discussions
- Show or hide discussions
- Troubleshoot discussions and subscriptions
- Subscriptions
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With Other Programs
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Working with Lotus Notes
- About using PowerPoint with Lotus Notes
- Convert a Lotus Freelance presentation to PowerPoint
- Import the text of a presentation into Lotus Notes
- Embed a presentation in Lotus Notes
- Create a custom field from an embedded presentation
- Update a field from an embedded presentation
- PowerPoint properties and Lotus Notes fields
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Linking and Embedding Objects
- About linked objects and embedded objects
- Link or embed files
- Edit a linked object or embedded object
- Edit an embedded object without its source program
- Change the way a linked object or embedded object appears
- Add, change, or remove a fill from an embedded object
- Control how linked objects are updated
- Troubleshoot linked and embedded objects
- Using Forms
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Working with Lotus Notes
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With Other People
- Automating Tasks and Programmability
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Language-Specific Features
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Language Setup
- Show or hide the Language bar
- About Microsoft Proofing Tools
- About the global interface and Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack
- About calendar, date, and time formats for specific languages
- About multilingual features in Office
- Add the date and time for a specific language
- Install system support for multiple languages
- Requirements for specific languages
- Select diacritics or ligated characters
- Enable editing of multiple languages in Office programs
- Locale identification numbers for language-specific files
- Change the default country/region
- Change the default language setting
- Change the font for a specific language
- Use a keyboard layout for a specific language
- Delete diacritics, ligatures, and special marks in South Asian text
- Troubleshoot working in a different language
- Change the language of the user interface or Help in Office programs
- Troubleshoot language-specific features
- Unicode Support
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East Asian
- Change font alignment for East Asian text
- Change horizontal text to vertical text
- Change paragraph alignment for East Asian text
- Combine numbers within vertical text
- Find and replace East Asian text
- Set line breaks for East Asian text
- Reconvert Japanese, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese text
- Input Method Editors (IMEs)
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Indic
- South Asian
- Right-to-Left
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Language Setup